Cleveland Piano Competition

The Cleveland International Piano Competition starts this week, Donald Rosenberg reports in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The entire competition, lasting more than a week, will be covered live by WCLV, which streams its broadcasts on the Internet. My schedule won't allow me to attend much of it, but I'm going to try to record some of it from the radio. One welcome bit of news from Rosenberg's report: "For the first time this year, contestants must play a 20th- or 21st-century work during rounds one or two. Only semifinalists were required to explore this repertoire in previous years." More information from official site.